Graham Central Station: Holy Cow, This is a LONG Post!

So, I'm continuing to play catch up on my blogging by posting pictures from my phone. This is an incredibly long post that starts in early November, with a celebration of Billy Graham's 95th birthday party! What a fun and special evening:

Me and my three sisters in law:

Roy and a few of the Graham cousins with 2 of the moms:

After the party was over, my sister in law, Kristy, and I were talking near a table and I realized it was the table that the Trumps had sat at. This was Melania Trumps cupcake that was untouched:) I had to get a picture with it!

Sweet Daddy Bill being sung to:

After that party, we headed to Virginia to meet our new niece, Beatrice Yeatts Seckman, also known as "Bertie":

We had our first "snow" in Charlotte in early November! The kids loved it! It didn't stick.

Caroline began to take on the roll of dish cleaner:

We celebrated VIP day at school with two school programs:

I joined two of my sisters, my niece and three other 15 year olds for a shopping weekend in Durham:

We celebrated Thanksgiving at the Cove:

We attended the Teddy Bear Tea at the Billy Graham Library with sweet friends:

Maddie came to visit us for a long weekend. What fun we had!! We started off the celebration by going to the Nutcraker:

Bless his heart. His reaction to the show was HILARIOUS. I promised him I would NEVER take him to see it again.

Maddie is a hit in our house. She is very fun:)

This little girl was in heaven all weekend with such a cool girl to look up to:

We decorated and redecorated out tree:

Roy and I surprised the kids one weekend by going to Great Wolf Lodge. We had a blast, but it was cold!

This was them on the way home after playing hard:

We visited the Billy Graham Library's Christmas display. Here is our annual shot. I love it!

Here is our Christmas Card that said "Happy Birthday, Jesus!". This was an impossible picture to take.

Roy Austin led the Christian Pledge in his chapel on Thursday morning:

We made an unplanned trip to see Santa one day while running errands at the mall. A certain boy and 3 year old were being awfully naughty. Santa helped nip that in the bud:

I LOVE Roy Austin's face here! Santa was asking them if they had been good for their mommy:

Charlotte was a little nervous, too:)

The best part of Christmas 2013 was that our sweet boy accepted Christ. They way it happened was so sporadic and so great. I will treasure the story in my heart forever. Here is his picture he drew right after of the party taking place in Heaven that night. There is an angel, Jesus in the house, and a birthday cake:)

We had a Christmas Eve brunch with the Capins. What a sweet couple.

We changed it up this year and celebrated our first Christmas in Charlotte. It was really enjoyable and such a nice day. Here are our three babies on Christmas morning:

Someone's little fingers took a swipe out of Jesus' birthday cake:

We drove to Wilmington after Christmas to visit Mama Jane:

Nana was also visiting so we were able to see her, too!

We returned to VA for New Year's and had fun playing Bingo with the cousins:

We played a little, too:

Roy and my brother in law, Leland, took Roy Austin and Michael to Indianapolis to see Uncle Corey and the Colts play in the playoffs. It was a very exciting game!

We started the Upward season with a basketball player and cheerleader...

...and a wannabe cheerleander:)

We went to Boone over the Martin Luther King weekend and got to visit with Aunt Cissie, Uncle Corey and sweet baby Margaret:

It was such a COLD winter, we experimented with placing wet tee-shirts outside over night only to find them frozen in the morning. I love little boy bed head:

We had Spirit Week and celebrated Tacky Day:

Character Day:

Decade Day:

and Blue and Gold Day:

Roy celebrated the big 37. We took him to Maggianos:

But first we had a celebration at his office. Here is a sweet picture of siblings during the party. He in no doubt playing Angry Bird Star Wars or Candy Crush:

Here are our Valentine pictures for 2014:

These two decided to go for the record of making the world's longest hopscotch course. I love Roy Boy's pose here in his Turtle pajamas and crocs:) I think they got to 120 something before I told them that the world record was 3 miles.